Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Mainstream media still refuses to acknowledge Echelon has listened in on all
communications since 1990′s

Paul Joseph WatsonInfowars.comDecember 4, 2013

In unveiling new Edward Snowden revelations about NSA spying, the
Washington Post has once again whitewashed the fact that the content of all our
communications have been stored and analyzed under the Echelon program since the
1990′s.

Image: iPhone User (Wikimedia Commons).

The new
details concern how, “The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5
billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world.”

However, the report reveals itself to be little more than an
exercise in soft-peddling when it claims that, “The NSA does not target
Americans’ location data by design, but the agency acquires a substantial amount
of information on the whereabouts of domestic cellphones “incidentally.”

This notion that the NSA just accidentally happens to record the
locations of Americans using data from their cellphones, and is not deliberately
engaging in domestic surveillance, is yet another example of damage control by
the establishment.

The new revelations once again pale in comparison to what we have
known since the 90′s – that the NSA is deliberately storing the content
of all our phone calls, emails and other data under the Echelon program.

In 1999, the
Australian government admitted that they were part of an NSA-led global
intercept and surveillance program called Echelon in alliance with the US and
Britain that could listen to “every international telephone call, fax, e-mail,
or radio transmission,” on the planet.

In addition, a 2001
European Parliament report stated that “within Europe all e-mail, telephone
and fax communications are routinely intercepted” by the NSA.

As former NSA employee turned whistleblower William Binney has
emphasized on multiple occasions, the space required to store mere metadata and
not actual content of conversations is minimal.

The reason the NSA is building huge data centers which cover 1.5
million square feet, like the facility in Bluffdale, Utah, is because the agency
is storing actual content of phone calls, online chats and conversations.

Binney’s revelations were for more hardcore than anything Edward
Snowden released yet he was largely ignored by the mainstream media, whereas
Snowden has attracted an infinitely greater amount of attention.

Although Snowden’s revelations are an important part of the NSA
spying puzzle, their content routinely allows the mainstream media to spin,
sideline and downplay the true scope of mass domestic surveillance.